Terry Rozier and his mother, Gina Tucker, who raised him along with her mother, Amanda Tucker. 'We stuck together and got through it all,' Gina said. 'I don't know how we did it, but we did.'

Written by

Jeff Greer
| The Courier-Journal

A fourth-grader named Terry Rozier huddled in a bed with older sister Tre'Dasia 10 years ago as their grandmother Amanda Tucker barricaded the door to the back room in her daughter's house in Youngstown, Ohio.

The rumor around the neighborhood was that a gunman planned to shoot up their house, and shots already had been fired at a relative in a local club.

The memory softens the voice of Rozier, now a 19-year-old standout freshman on the University of Louisville basketball team. It is unfamiliar territory to see a vulnerable Rozier, a baby-faced point guard who ordinarily talks in measured, ...